The 2024-25 College Football Playoff semifinals are set for this upcoming week. Thursday night, No. 6 Penn State will be taking on No. 7 Notre Dame, with a spot in the College Football Playoff national title game on the line.

College football has put a bow on its historic quarterfinal playoff round of games, but that doesn’t mean there still aren’t some bowl games on the schedule for

There are 47 total bowl games in the 2024-25 season, including four college football playoff first round games, four quarterfinal games, two semifinals, and the national championship on Monday, January 20.

But here at ESPN bowl prediction headquarters in downtown Indianapolis, we're not afraid of any circumstances. So let's get to the picks, from campus CFP sites through traditional bowls and all the way to the national title game on Jan. 20 in Atlanta.

The most important action of a historic college football bowl schedule kicks off today on New Year’s Day with the quarterfinal round of the College Football Pla

The Miami Hurricanes, who are three-time winners, will make a record seventh appearance in the Pop-Tarts Bowl. The 10-2 Hurricanes meet the 10-3 Iowa State Cyclones, who have lost on the two previous occasions that they have contested the 34-year-old game. Miami and Iowa State have never met before. Time: 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 p.m. PT

Kirk Herbstreit and SEC fans are wrong about a lot of things. Here’s how to fix the College Football Playoff so that future debates won’t become so ridiculous.